Just in Time for Valentine's Day, the CDC Issued a Warning About Super Gonorrhea and an Epidemic of STDs

If you're spending Valentine's Day alone, here's something comforting: At least you won't catch a case of super gonorrhea. According to a CDC report, cephalsporins – the antibiotics used to treat gonorrhea — are becoming less and less effective. Cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea is apparently already an issue in…
The scary untreatable kind of gonorrhea is now cheerfully marching through North America. Hey, girl.
Gonorrhea Is Now One Antibiotic Away from Being Untreatable
Remember when we told you late last year that gonorrhea, an STD that can cause infertility and death, is "possibly becoming untreatable"? Well, now the disease is closer to untreatable than it has been since doctors devised a way to treat it in the first place. We're down to just one antibiotic that can effectively…
Vladimir Putin's Picture Added to STD Warning
If there's one thing you do not mess with, in Russia, it's Vladimir Putin's image as an International Man of Sexiness. But that's what a group of anarchists in Siberia did by adding a picture of a sickly Putin, as well as President Dmitry Medvedev and several other politicians, to an ad about gonorrhea and other STDs…
'Catastrophic' Super Gonorrhea Threatens American Genitals
According to the CDC, close to a quarter of strains of gonorrhea in America were resistant to penicillin and other commonly used antibiotics in 2009. In 2010, some strains were also resistant to all drugs doctors have to treat the clap. Will a great clap plague kill us all? Here's the New York Daily News' summary of…
Alaska Has a Major Gonorrhea Problem
The Great Alaskan Gonorrhea Outbreak is still burning, and the state now ranks ninth in the country. (via)
Gonorrhea Rate at an All-Time Low in U.S.
Hurrah! The rate of gonorrhea infection in the U.S. is at an all-time low.
Swingers More Likely to Have Gonorrhea Than Prostitutes
Swingers have higher rates of sexually transmitted infection than prostitutes by almost two-to-one, according to a new study conducted in Dutch clinics. Scientists say older swingers are particularly gross. Uh, vulnerable. Particularly vulnerable. [Reuters]
